Performing Catharsis: Enacting An Ancient Therapy - Paperback
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What is catharsis and how exactly do pity (eleos) and fear (phobos) and other emotions achieve it? Rather than examining catharsis as described in Aristotle's Poetics, this book instead places it within the context of performance in ancient Greece from the Palaeolithic to the fourth century BCE.
Peter Meineck holds the endowed chair of Professor of Classics in the Modern World at New York University (USA). Publications include The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory (2019), Theatrocracy: Greek Drama, Cognition and the Imperative for Theatre (2018), Aristophanes Frogs (2021) and Tony Stark, Odysseus and the Mythology Behind Marvel (2026). He founded Aquila Theatre in London in 1991 and has produced and directed over 50 professional stage productions and directed several national arts and humanities public programs in the United States. He holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham.
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